Associated Press
 
November, 3, 2009
 
CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A jury has awarded about $41,000 in damages to a homeless man who was shot by an Oregon State University fraternity member in 2006.
 
Dennis Sanderson was in an alley behind the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity in Corvallis looking through a trash container when he was shot by a frat member who claimed he was shooting at the container.
 
The fraternity member, Joshua Grimes, pleaded guilty to assault and unlawful use of a weapon charges in 2007 for shooting Sanderson with a .22 caliber rifle.
 
Sanderson's attorney had argued the national fraternity was negligent but the jury rejected that claim. But the jury said the frat and Grimes are responsible for the damages.